Anthem, Inc. is the nation's leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 40 million medical members nationwide.
Aspire Health is the nation’s largest community-based palliative care provider. Aspire specializes in providing an extra layer of support to patients facing a serious illness through an ambitious palliative care program focused on caring for patients in their homes and outpatient clinics. Aspire’s clinicians are experts in providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness; helping patients and caregivers navigate the healthcare system; guiding patients and caregivers through difficult and complex treatment choices; and providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families.
The Patient Enrollment Specialist is responsible for new patient acquisition. The role is critical to drive the growth of the organization and meet our enrollment commitments to our customers and partners. The role focuses on reaching out to prospective patients to explain Aspire’s services, addressing a variety of inquiries, gathering feedback, and scheduling the initial in-home appointment.
The Patient Enrollment Specialist has an ability to react very quickly and be nimble in providing responses and meeting the needs of the patient and our internal team members in a timely, calm, and professional manner.
Making outbound calls for prospective patients and working to ensure the efficient scheduling of initial in-home appointments
Ensuring that the patient receives a detailed explanation of Aspire’s services
Expedite emergency clinical calls as needed
Process new appointments or changes to existing appointment
Own, manage, convert, and enrolling an assigned referral base
Ramp new Advance Practice Provider’s census and maintain APPs at target census
Schedule appointments at the “best time” by considering the needs of our patients within the context of the APP’s overall schedule and availability
Demonstrate compassion for individual needs, attention to detail, and collaborating with other team members are critical success factors of this role
Demonstrate a high level of professionalism and continuous improvement while participating in the call quality monitoring processes
Work collaboratively and efficiently with other corporate and field based team members to ensure patients receive exceptional service
Document accurate and concise patient/family feedback and special needs during each call in our computer systems, enabling our market-based clinicians to provide excellent care during each appointment
Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
Education and experience requirements
High school diploma required
Bachelor’s degree in either a business or health science field or at least 3-5 years of comparable work experience.
Previous work at home experience strongly preferred